Associate Director, Technical Motion Design

Role overview Lead the technical development of a motion design production pipeline while continuing to contribute directly to creative work. The position combines people management, production operations, and hands-on technical direction, building reusable systems that help teams move from concept through approval, localization, delivery, and archiving with greater consistency.

Responsibilities - Set and maintain a pipeline roadmap, prioritizing improvements that reduce repetitive work, raise quality, and support scalable delivery. - Build and maintain scripts, plugins, templates, expressions, component libraries, and automation for production, localization, review, quality checks, and delivery. - Establish reusable project structures and standards for naming, dependencies, handoffs, versioning, and archiving. - Improve workflows between design, animation, review, tracking, storage, and delivery tools so versions and approvals remain traceable. - Stay hands-on with complex builds, prototypes, debugging, and reference implementations for the wider team. - Manage and mentor motion designers, provide training and documentation, and work with creative and project leads to identify risks and reuse opportunities early.

Requirements - At least five years of professional experience in motion design, technical direction, creative technology, animation production, or a related field. - A portfolio demonstrating strong motion work and technical systems that other creatives can use. - Deep Adobe After Effects expertise, including expressions, project structure, rendering, troubleshooting, and reusable templates. - Experience developing or maintaining production tools through scripting, plugins, APIs, node-based workflows, or automation; JavaScript or ExtendScript is preferred. - Experience with localization, large-scale versioning, responsive motion layouts, production quality assurance, and delivery standards. - Experience managing or mentoring creative team members, with strong debugging, systems thinking, communication, and documentation skills.

Nice to have - Working knowledge of Figma and Adobe Premiere; experience with 3D tools, generative video, Python, command-line workflows, or render automation.

Benefits and work setup The role is listed as remote in the United States or Canada. Benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage, retirement matching, paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave.